Jewish Organizations
Jewish Environmental Organizations

• The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life was founded in 1993 to promote environmental education, scholarship, advocacy, and action in the American Jewish community. COEJL is sponsored by a broad coalition of national Jewish organizations and has organized regional affiliates in communities across North America. COEJL is the Jewish member of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment. To learn more…
  
  • COEJL’s network of Regional Affiliates that serve as a vital source of community based environmental education, action, and advocacy, involving synagogues, schools, Jewish community centers, camps, and other local Jewish organizations in a wide range of environmental activities. Hikes, “Shabbat in the Woods,” community clean-ups and public policy activities all create opportunities to connect environmental interest and commitment with Jewish values and experience. To learn more…
    
• Shomrei Adamah (Hebrew for "Guardians of the Earth") is the non-profit Jewish environmental organization of the greater Washington, DC area. It promotes the connection between ecology and Jewish tradition through education, religious practice, social events, and activism. Its members -- of all ages, professions, and Jewish backgrounds -- are united by the common belief that Judaism obliges us to protect the Earth. To learn more....

• The Jewish Environmental Initiative (JEI) of St. Louis,Missouri, works to encourage all members of the Jewish community to take an active role in caring for God's creation. By drawing upon Judaism's teachings, traditions, moral passions, and history of social action, JEI offers unique, enjoyable and educational opportunities to participate in activities to preserve and restore the environment. JEI works with Jewish congregations, organizations, schools and other institutions as well as individuals. Founded in 1998, JEI's members include representatives from orthodox, conservative, reform, and reconstructionist congregations in the St. Louis area as well as the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the United Synagogues of Conservative Judaism, and Washington University Hillel. To learn more…
  
  
• Jews of the Earth, Boulder, Colorado has a three-fold mission: (1) To provide educational programs and activities focused on the connection between Judaism and the environment; (2) To provide religious outreach programs about Jewish environmental study and service, and (3) To provide local institutions with educational and technical assistance regarding environmental practices. To learn more…